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Pagnol’s Poetic Realism

Brett Bowles, associate professor of French and film studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, is the author of “Marcel Pagnol” (Manchester University Press, 2012), the first comprehensive study of Pagnol’s work in English. In this 2017 video essay, he discusses Pagnol and THE MARSEILLE TRILOGY in relation to poetic realism in French cinema.